August bank holiday weekend, towards the middle of the last century. I was solo in a Sedbergh, at age of 16 (me not the glider - the glider was much older) approaching Catterick. Due to a sudden attack of incompetence landed short on the other side of the A1 - rescue party soon arrived and "helped me" to de-rig.
Unfortunately the wind was blowing across the A1 at the time; had to carry the wing into wind. We waited for 45 minutes for a gap in the traffic big enough to get a Sedbergh wing across both carriageways.
Then I decided to amend my RAF application form to read "Engineer".
Rgds SOS